Ceremony Time

If we're having an afternoon wedding (reception begins at 12), what time should our ceremony be at the church?

Re: Ceremony Time

probably like 10ish say your having a mass thats an hour long then if you want to take pictures afterwards give yourself at least an hour that is why im doing it at the rh so much easier im having an afternoon wedding as well actually twillight i couldnt book a church bc of the times that they can offer me someone said i should of booked a church then a rh to work out but its working out in the end

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Our ceremony is 11:30AM, CH starts at 1.

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i would do it as early as possible so that you have enough time for pictures in between. our CH starts at 1pm so we booked a 10:30 ceremony at our church.

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We are not having a mass so we are having a ceremony that starts at 11:30 and cocktail hour starts at 1. I know we will prob be a bit crunched for time, but that is how we had to do it.

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I guess it would depend on how close the church is to the RH as well. You should prob make it as early as possilbe so you can account for length of ceremony, pictures at church and before wedding, traffic to RH and/or pictures at RH without everyone there yet.

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I went to a wedding recently with a ceremony at 11 and the CH at 1. I think 2 hours is a good time if you're getting married at a different location and need time to travel. If you're doing everything at the same location a half hour before CH should be plenty of time.

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I would say 10am. Check with your church though; ours had set times for ceremonies - we could pick from the set times but we couldn't just pull an hour out of thin air.